Das Flüstern des Mondes (2006)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Michael Satzinger

Writer:

Michael Satzinger (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Romance | Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Male Frontal Nudity | Interrogation | Nude Girl | Female Full Frontal Nudity | Computer

Cast

Franz Robert Ceeh	...	Circus principal
Mischa Fernbach	...	Seminarist
Dominik Hartel	...	Patrick (as Dominik Hartl)
Margot Hruby
Rochus Millauer	...	Clown
Fabian Rudisser	...	Circus Boy
Julia Schwarz	...	Mo
Julian Stampfer	...	Jannis
Liane Wagner	...	Mother

Also Known As:

Whispering Moon (International: English title)

Runtime:

97 min | USA:75 min

Country:

Austria

Language:

German

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Company:

Magic Movie

Visual Fun

A really visually fun film about a two guys, one mute, in some kind of relationship and their project to film a documentary related to some homicides of politicians by the use of deadly frogs suspected to be bred in a circus. The film is set in a future(?) where conspiracy theories bloom, after the NASA admits hoaxing the moon landing, but what's really interesting about the film are their visuals. As one of the main characters narrates the story in a rather magical aesthetic, it is visually manipulated, there's the use of this effect of having a hand from outside the action lighting cigarettes or wiping yogurt off the mute guy's face, while at other times a computer menu simply irrupts into the scene to do things like flushing the toilet, adding the right music or setting the moon's phase, amongst many other things like texts, censorship bands or a couple of interruptions with "Movie Quizzes" where the mute re-enacts a film and you have options displayed. Add some really colorful characters like a girl allergic to light, a rather creepy mayoress, the circus people and the TV clips by the mute guy's journalist mother and her guests, and you have a film that's really fun to watch.